On the Boards

The ACE Center at Sugar Land is a new 6,400-seat live entertainment complex located near Houston, Texas. The building is designed to support the largest popular music artists as well as touring Broadway, comedians, dance and variety shows. >>>

Design has begun for the new Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences which plans for a 2,200 seat theatre, a smaller 400 seat theatre and a 6,000-square-foot multipurpose room. The design team includes Diamond Schmitt Architects, Parkhill, Smith & Cooper, MWM Architects, Jaffe Holden Acoustics and Schuler Shook as the theatre consultant. Construction is expected to begin in 2016. >>>

An elevated pathway called "The Navy Pier Flyover" will ease several points of congestion along the most heavily used section of lakefront trail between Grand Street and Illinois Street in Chicago. >>>